[NB] EM dash

[rwfranz]

@DavidR

@EMPisek

Double hyphens only give me 2 dashes --, when the 3rd hyphen is added then it instantly becomes an em dash. Try it slowly in the Windows Scrivener.

I just did an extensive 30-second test and found: typing two hyphens leaves two hyphens – . Typing two hyphens followed by any character (alpha-numeric, space, new paragraph, punctuation–including a third hyphen) produces an em dash — , followed by the character (alpha-numeric, space, new paragraph, punctuation–or the third hyphen). IOW, the conversion of the two hyphens to the em dash is only triggered by typing another character after them.

And if you type 3 hyphens and a space, you also get an em-dash. If you type 4 hyphens and a space you get an em-dash and another character (which right now renders as an unrenderable box). I’m not sure this is deliberate. If you type a continuous string of hyphens, that sequence will repeat ad nauseum.

Scriv Beta 16 does not have this behavior in the document name/title or the synopsis, but it does in notes and documents.